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Democracy has nothing to do with being American or ‘Western’

American democracy will probably survive its current difficulties. Democracy as the default mode in the world certainly will.
The obvious way to continue this article would be to point out that Joe Biden won the election, that thanks to the run-off elections in Georgia, the Democrats will control both houses of Congress, and that the joint session of Congress withstood the assault of Trump’s storm-troopers on Jan. 6, 2021, pictured, writes Gwynne Dyer.
LONDON, U.K.—If I have to read one more hand-wringing article about the ‘crisis of American democracy’ and what it means for the world, I’m going to retch. The last straw was an article in The New Yorker last week by Adam Gopnik, an accomplished journalist whom I usually admire. It...

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